Clinical Psychologist
Location: Leeds
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 DOE per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

Clinical / Professional Practice

• To provide specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to BIRT and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
• To coordinate Service User’s care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/clinical lead.
• To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological and/ or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurorehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice.
• To elicit personal goals from service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team.
• To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family, and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
• To contribute specialist psychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation, appropriate therapeutic approaches, or intervention plans, and be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff.
• To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team.
• To be responsible for maintaining a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with Brainkind, professional and national standards for Health Care records.
• To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required,
• To communicate through a variety of methods (written, virtual, verbal) to a high standard, in a timely and appropriate manner, in line with confidentiality policies to ensure delivery of a high-quality service.
• To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users.
• To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on own caseload seeking appropriate supervision as required.
• To participate in regular on call support for the unit on a rota basis.
• To demonstrate a duty of care to equipment and resources supplied by Brainkind.
• To remain informed of current research and evaluations to support evidence-based practice in own professional work and to contribute this perspective in the multi-disciplinary team.
• To contribute to project management and complex audits, assisting colleagues to develop service provision.
• To coordinate administration of agreed outcome measures.
• With approval via the relevant process initiate and conduct psychologically based research relevant to the care of adults with acquired brain injury, as agreed with the Consultant Neuropsychologist,
• You will keep abreast of developments in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology particularly in the field of neurorehabilitation

MAIN PURPOSE:

To work as part of a multi/inter disciplinary team, providing clinical psychology and neuropsychology input within the Brainkind neurobehavioral model to service users with acquired brain injury. You will consult with internal and external professionals, family members and service users. You will engage in relevant research and advise other professionals as appropriate.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Clinical / Professional Practice

• To provide specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment of adults with acquired brain injury referred to BIRT and related services, utilising and interpreting information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
• To coordinate Service User’s care as appropriate and agreed with your supervisor, in the role of keyworker/clinical lead.
• To formulate and implement plans of specialist psychological and/ or neuropsychological intervention to support the neurorehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury as part of the multi/inter disciplinary team, based on current evidence-based best practice.
• To elicit personal goals from service users and translate this to specific, measurable, achievable, relevant timed SMART goals with the team.
• To undertake a range of psychological therapeutic and rehabilitation interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family, and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention.
• To contribute specialist psychological advice to the multi/inter disciplinary formulation, appropriate therapeutic approaches, or intervention plans, and be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaborations with other staff.
• To undertake psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for relevant service users and provide advice on the psychological aspects of risk to the multi/inter disciplinary team.
• To be responsible for maintaining a high standard of clinical record keeping in accordance with Brainkind, professional and national standards for Health Care records.
• To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, as required,
• To communicate through a variety of methods (written, virtual, verbal) to a high standard, in a timely and appropriate manner, in line with confidentiality policies to ensure delivery of a high-quality service.
• To consult with and provide specialist psychological guidance to carers and families of service users.
• To exercise autonomous professional judgement and responsibility for the psychological management of service users on own caseload seeking appropriate supervision as required.
• To participate in regular on call support for the unit on a rota basis.
• To demonstrate a duty of care to equipment and resources supplied by Brainkind.
• To remain informed of current research and evaluations to support evidence-based practice in own professional work and to contribute this perspective in the multi-disciplinary team.
• To contribute to project management and complex audits, assisting colleagues to develop service provision.
• To coordinate administration of agreed outcome measures.
• With approval via the relevant process initiate and conduct psychologically based research relevant to the care of adults with acquired brain injury, as agreed with the Consultant Neuropsychologist,
• You will keep abreast of developments in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology particularly in the field of neurorehabilitation.

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*Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. *

• All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks